News and Notes

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Sep 10, 1901

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 78, No. 37.

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— During the year 1900, 330 persons were killed in Chicago by railroads.

— The United States war-ship “Ranger” has arrived at Panama.

— The Michigan State Sanitary Convention recently opened at Ludington.

— The German training ships in South American waters are to be reinforced.

— Russia is said to be arranging a settlement of the Franco-Turkish quarrel.

— According to the census bulletins “males predominate in North Dakota, Ohio, Oregon, and Oklahoma.”

— A movement has been started in New York City “to secure American intervention in the South African war.”

— The yacht “Columbia,” which defeated “Shamrock I,” will defend America’s cup against “Shamrock II.”

— The Kentucky farm on which Abraham Lincoln was born is to be the site for “an asylum for inebriates.”

— The Eighteenth and Twenty-third United States Infantry regiments have been ordered back from the Philippines.

— Japan has resented the “alleged outrageous treatment of women by American quarantine agents at Honolulu.”

— The London papers are making fun of the German Kaiser in connection with the recent Prince Chun incident.

— On account of the great strike and labor troubles, the Tarrant Foundry Company, of Chicago, will move to Aurora, Ill.

— In their sessions at Port Huron, the Michigan postmasters passed resolutions advocating the betterment of the rural delivery.

— The Stationary Engineers, in session at Rochester, N. Y., recently rejected a proposition to exclude negroes from the organization.

— Hereafter postal parcels from Germany to Boston, Philadelphia, Chicago, and St. Louis, will not be examined in New York City.

— The civic alliance of Indianapolis is endeavoring to impeach the chief of police of that city, “for not enforcing the saloon ordinance.”

— In his recent speech at the Buffalo Exposition, President McKinley declared himself in favor of the United States building an isthmian canal.

— The striking cigar makers of Tampa, Fla., continue to be kidnapped. Thirteen were recently returned to that city from the Island of Honduras.

— Ecuador has begun war on Colombia. Her naval and military forces are reported to be on the way to invade Panama Province. The United States offers to be arbitrator.

— In his recent address at the Minnesota State fair, Vice-President Roosevelt declared that “State and nation must possess the right to supervise and control the great industrial combinations,” and also declared himself “in favor of the strict enforcement of the Monroe doctrine.”

— Leonidas Plaza has been inaugurated President of Ecuador.

— Alaska’s gold output this year will be fully up to last year’s mark.

— Victor Emmanuel, King of Italy, does not use tobacco in any form.

— There is now cable connection between Juneau, Alaska, and Skagway.

— Prince Chun did not finally have to “kotow” before the German Kaiser.

— The British section of Peking, China, has been turned over to the native authorities.

— The United States has warned Venezuela and Colombia not to violate treaties with this country.

— Senator Clark, of Montana, is having surveyed an electric road from Salt Lake City to San Francisco.

— It is reported that the Chicago court, just opened, has “over twenty murder cases on the docket.”

— The British bark “Collessie,” bound from Newcastle, Australia, to Valparaiso, foundered off the coast of Chile.

— According to Consul General Stowe, at Cape Town, American trade is “making vast strides in South Africa.”

— Eleven persons were killed, and nineteen injured, by the recent derailing of a Northern Central train, near Newark, N. Y.

— The Belgian steamer “Noramore,” bound for Bombay, India, recently sank near Athina, Asiatic Turkey. Forty lives lost.

— It seems that “a revolutionary movement is on foot in Persia, and martial law has been proclaimed in the capital and environs.”

— Chinese dispatches state that Wu Ting Fang, Chinese Minister to this country, will become Chinese Ambassador to London.

— A Wetumpka, Ala., court recently sentenced to life imprisonment “a member of a mob which lynched a negro several months ago.”

— Thirty-six persons were recently killed in a railroad wreck on the Great Northern line, thirty miles west of Kalispell, Mont.

— The late Dowager Empress Frederick, of Germany, was worth 11,000,000 marks. One million marks goes to each of her six children.

— The United States battle-ship “Iowa” recently left Acapulco, Mexico, for Panama, “notwithstanding efforts to stop its sailing.”

— A Copenhagen dispatch to London states that the Danish Ministry has “decided to accept the United States’ offer of $4,000,000 for the Danish West Indies.”

— As the liner “Southwark” was about to sail from New York, at noon, the 4th inst., the firemen struck, delaying her until 7 P. M. “Forty-six of the crew were put in irons, and an inspector and a platoon of police were called to quell the trouble.”

— In a report published by the Standard, of London, it is shown that “of the 62,479 men, women, and children under British supervision in refugee camps in the Transvaal, 1,057 died in July,” and that “860 of those who died were under twelve years of age.”

— The highest telegraph poles in the United States—and so far as known, in the world—may be found in Beaumont, Tex. Their tops are 150 feet from the ground, and “they carry a Western Union cable across the Neches River—a span of 144 feet in length.”

— The Post-Dispatch of St. Louis says that “all of the sun-smitten citizens carried to the hospitals of that city during the recent hot spell, were found to be people given to drinking whisky or beer, not one being a total abstainer from intoxicants.” Pure water is evidently the best summer beverage.

— Sunday, September 1, Vice-President Roosevelt occupied the pulpit of the Dutch Reformed Church of Chicago, preaching upon “the strenuous life,” his text being, “Be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only.” He then made an address at the First Methodist Church, and left for Minneapolis:

— Dr. Krauze, former governor of Johannesburg, South Africa, has been arrested in London, “charged with high treason, the British government claiming that he has obtained important information since his arrival in England four months ago, concerning England’s plans in South Africa, and has forwarded the information to the Boers.” He has been refused bail.

— The Mormons are building a church in Philadelphia.

— The Manila harbor is to be improved. Cost, $1,500,000.

— The cost of improving the Brooklyn navy yard will be $2,000,000.

— Bubonic plague is becoming more prevalent at Hongkong, China.

— Chile is making plans to accumulate a reserve fund of 50,000,000 pesos.

— The coke production of the United States for 1900 was 20,533,348 short tons.

— Cabrera, a leading insurgent in the Philippines, has surrendered to the United States.

— The Australian House of Representatives has now provided for an army and navy.

— A serious insurrection is reported to be in progress in Manchuria. But Russia will take care of that.

— The Federal Court of Honolulu, H. I., has declared that “Chinese born in the Hawaiian Islands are citizens of the United States.”

— A German ship, the “Asturia,” was recently wrecked on the Somaliland coast, and $600,000 worth of goods were carried off by natives.

— The receipts of the United States Post-Office Department during the past fiscal year were $111,000,000, an increase of $9,000,000 over those of the previous year.

— Dr. Parkhurst has been censured by the pastors of other churches, “because of his scheme to have Sunday-school children act as detectives in cases of the illegal sale of liquor.”

— The steamer “Islander,” of the Canadian Pacific Navigation Company, Victoria, British Columbia, recently struck an iceberg off Douglas Island, and sank. Seventy lives lost.

— Andrew D. White, United States ambassador to Germany, will resign from his important post next year, “on the seventieth anniversary of his birth. The ambassador is just completing forty-eight years of active life.”

— Rev. Dr. Prescott, a Methodist minister of Dorchester, Mass., advocates the disfranchisement of all drunkards. For the first conviction he would deprive the offender of the right to vote for one year, and upon a second offense, the sentence would be doubled.

— It is thought that the Canadian Northern, Canada’s new trans-continental railway, will be “completed through the Manitoba grain fields in time to handle a part of this year’s crop of wheat. At the terminal on Lake Superior, an elevator having a capacity of 1,000,000 bushels, will be ready for use in October.”

— As an instance of present-day heroism the newspapers state that “in a collision between a tug-boat and a Lehigh Valley ferry-boat, at Jersey City, a one-legged sweeper who works on the docks at the Lehigh Valley warehouse, swam ashore with one hand and one foot, while with his other hand he held a Polish laborer’s head above water and pushed him ashore.” We are sorry we cannot give his name.

— As a result of Japanese Buddhist missionary work in this country, begun about one year ago, there has been established in San Francisco a church called the “Dharma-Sangha of Buddha.” It has three branches in other Californian towns, and “in the San Francisco temple there is a membership of 300 in the Young Men’s Buddhist Association, mostly of Japanese. At an English service on Sundays, twenty or more Americans are present, of whom eleven have already been converted to Buddhism, and have openly professed that they “take their refuge in Buddha, in his gospel and in his order.”

— Two of the men who were caught in the water-works tunnel at Cleveland, Ohio, the 14th ult., were rescued the 20th, “after having spent five days in the excavation 200 feet below the surface of Lake Erie, in total darkness, without food, breathing air so foul that it nearly suffocated them, and in momentary expectation of death. Their escape is due to a chance visit to the crib by members of the life-saving crew who heard their feeble tapping on the tubes leading down to their cell. The following day a second disaster occurred, still farther out in the lake. An explosion of gas in the tunnel resulted fatally to five men, and destroyed a crib. Thirty men on the wrecked crib, five miles from shore, spent all night in signaling for help, but none came until daylight. The explosion wrecked the shaft in which the men were working, and let an immense volume of water in upon them. Seven of the steel cylinders lining the tunnel were hurled forty feet into the air.”

— A $1,000,000 tannery is to be established at St. Paul, Minn.

— According to census reports, New York State has a surplus of women.

— William E. Bingham, of Council Grove, Kan., has been appointed United States Consul at Cape Town, South Africa.

— George Dorys, a fugitive from Turkey, has been sentenced to death “for writing a book on the private life of the Sultan.”

— Twelve persons were killed, and several others injured, by the destruction of a temporary water-works crib in Cleveland, Ohio, harbor.

— Gustave Whitehead, a mechanical engineer of Bridgeport, Conn., has made a flying machine, in which he recently journeyed half a mile.

— Among the improvements to be placed in Buckingham Palace, by the order of King Edward, are three American automatic electric elevators.

— Governor Longino, of Mississippi, has announced “a shortage of $107,621 in the State’s funds, for which the Treasurer has failed to account.”

— A recent cloudburst washed away several bridges near Swain, N. Y., and blocked traffic between Hornellsville and Buffalo over the Erie Railroad.

— The American Anti-Trust League has challenged Attorney-General Knox to offer “a reward for the production of incriminating evidence against the steel trust.”

— Italy’s new submarine boat “Delfino” has stood her trial tests most satisfactorily. It is provided with a cleptoscope, the invention of Italian engineers Russo and Laurenti.

— According to statistics furnished by the Interstate Commerce Commission, “the railroad companies of the United States now operate 192,556 miles of road, use 37,663 locomotives and 1,365,531 freight cars, employ 1,017,653 persons, and have an annual net income of $688,500,000.”

— The American Standard Revision edition of the Bible may now be obtained, the first copies of the same having been issued the 26th ult. This new edition is “the result of disagreements between the English and the American revisers,” and is really the King James version rendered into modern English. In many instances words used in the King James version have now an entirely different meaning from that which they had in the days of King James.

— The following proclamation has been issued by the State Department, and signed by President McKinley, in regard to the Louisiana Purchase Exposition to be held in St. Louis in 1903: “I do hereby invite all the nations of the earth to take part in the commemoration of the purchase of the Louisiana territory,—an event of great interest to the United States, and of abiding effect on their development,—by appointing representatives and sending exhibits to the Louisiana Purchase Exposition as will most fitly and fully illustrate their resources, their industries, and their progress in civilization.”

— George P. Cooley, a Chicago man, recently fasted thirty-one days. Before the fast he was “racked with rheumatism until it seemed as if he could not bear the pain any longer, and suffered severely from catarrh and nervous affections.” He now considers himself “a well man, without a pain or an ache;” and further, “his eyes, which, when he began to fast, were badly inflamed, are bright and clear.” Of course, he was very careful to eat but a small quantity of food for his first meal after fasting. We know of a New York editor of some prominence who frequently fasts for a week at a time, and with beneficial results. He drinks plenty of water, of course, during his fast.

— It seems to be very difficult just now for those on the other side of the Atlantic to secure passage to this country. An exchange states that the demand for passage to the United States has reached “the highest point ever attained in the history of transatlantic passenger traffic. Hundreds of passengers who had been refused accommodations on the Hamburg-American liner ‘Deutschland,’ because all the available cabin space had been taken, offered to forego cabin luxuries and sleep on the floor of any part of the vessel, provided they were permitted to eat in the saloon. On this vessel alone 200 Americans are on record as offering from twice to five times the cost of first-class passage for second-cabin tickets. On the other lines many are going home in the second cabin, paying first-cabin rates for the privilege of eating in the saloon.”

— According to Lady Russell, the cost of an American divorce is “nine months’ residence and $2,500.”

— A newspaper published in Rome, recently urged the Italian government to “take measures against the United States, for the lynching of Italians.”

— England has launched a new cruiser, the “Essex,” of 9,800 tons and 22,000 horse-power. Cost, $3,605,920. Speed, twenty-three knots an hour.

— The Russian government has decided to “continue the state of siege in Moscow Province for another year—an indication that the political situation is still serious.”

— The “Moccasin,” a submarine torpedo boat, was recently launched at Elizabeth, N. J. It is “the second of five being built for the United States government, by the Holland Torpedo Boat Company.”